MIKE DAVIS: Driving a stake through 2020 election lawfare

The 2020 predetermination ended six years ago. Yet, 2 power-hungry Democrat attorneys wide up for re-election adjacent year, Kris Mayes of Arizona and Josh Kaul of Wisconsin, persist successful their lawfare against Trump supporters who lawfully challenged the election. These disgraceful cases indispensable extremity immediately.

President Trump and galore supporters recovered galore discrepancies with the 2020 election. They challenged the results successful respective closely-contested states. The First Amendment and the Electoral Count Act of 1887 permitted specified challenges — conscionable similar Democrats challenged Republican statesmanlike wins successful 1968, 2000, 2004 and 2016. Leftists maliciously alleged that the challengers submitted "fake electors" arsenic portion of the effort to overturn certified results successful these states.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul measurement adjacent steps successful their 2020 fake elector prosecutions. (Mario Tama/Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for Democratic Party of Wisconsin)

This is utter nonsense. No 1 was duped by the intent of these alternate electors. Rudy Giuliani didn’t person the "real" electors tied up successful his trunk portion sending successful the "fake" electors.

The slates of electors submitted were alternate electors successful the lawsuit that, connected Jan. 6, 2021, Congress sustained objections to the certification of electors successful the contested states.

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In 2022, Democrat Mayes defeated Republican Abraham Hamadeh by little than 300 votes to go lawyer wide of Arizona. She instantly started pursuing amerciable lawfare against Trump supporters. Mark Brnovich, the erstwhile lawyer general, took nary enactment against those who had disputed the 2020 election, due to the fact that helium recognized that they had committed nary crimes. Mayes didn’t attraction and sought indictments against the eleven Arizona alternate electors and 7 different defendants, including Mike Roman, President Trump’s run caput of operations connected predetermination day.

Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani speaks during a quality league extracurricular the national courthouse successful Washington, Dec. 15, 2023. (Jose Luis Magana, File/The Associated Press)

A Maricopa County proceedings tribunal correctly threw retired the indictment and ordered Mayes to question a caller one. Mayes had not provided the expansive assemblage with the afloat substance of the Electoral Count Act, a analyzable and arcane statute that has nonstop bearing connected the case. If the statute permitted the defendants’ actions, the authorities cannot prolong its case. Federal predetermination instrumentality preempts authorities instrumentality with respect to national elections. The statute was truthful analyzable that Congress amended it a fewer years agone done the Electoral Count Reform Act.

Mayes scurried to the Arizona Court of Appeals. That tribunal wisely declined to perceive her appeal. Now, she has petitioned the Arizona Supreme Court for review. The justices should travel the sage pb of the appellate tribunal and diminution to perceive Mayes’ appeal.

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Mayes is the aforesaid authoritative who threatened to analyse President Trump for a expected decease menace against erstwhile Rep. Liz Cheney — a Trump-deranged RINO — during a run rally successful Phoenix. Trump, of course, made nary specified threat, and Mayes abandoned her stunt soon aft the president’s resounding triumph past November.

Wisconsin besides suffers from a partisan Democrat lawyer wide seeking re-election. In 2024, astir 4 years aft the decision of the 2020 election, Kaul, a extremist leftist similar Mayes, obtained indictments against 3 defendants, including Roman and 2 of Trump’s attorneys.

The facts were the aforesaid arsenic successful Arizona, but that Kaul did not complaint the 10 Wisconsin alternate electors. The defendants are present facing a preliminary proceeding successful Dane County, a leftist bastion location to the authorities superior and the ultra-liberal University of Wisconsin-Madison, wherever they are hard-pressed to find a just and impartial jury.

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A preliminary proceeding is scheduled for Dec. 15. One suspect has sought to disqualify Judge John Hyland, alleging that a retired justice named Frank Remington wrote the sentiment denying a defence question to dismiss. The recusal question included enactment from a Georgetown adept who concluded that, based connected penning styles, Remington had written the opinion. Hyland denied the question to recuse and asserted that helium had written the opinion.

President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet gathering astatine the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, successful Washington, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and War Secretary Pete Hegseth. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)

Regardless of however the preliminary proceeding goes, the lawsuit should end. Kaul brought the charges, aft the facts were known for 4 years, successful the mediate of the 2024 election, successful which Wisconsin was a pivotal plaything state. We cannot criminalize politics.

There was different prosecutorial embarrassment who brought charges against a slew of defendants implicit the 2020 predetermination successful Georgia: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Her lawsuit got derailed erstwhile it became public, acknowledgment to Roman’s lawyer Ashleigh Merchant, that Willis was having an matter with 1 of the peculiar prosecutors she had hired, Nathan Wade, who received astir $700,000 courtesy of the taxpayers of Fulton County. Wade spent overmuch of it connected Willis, treating her to lavish planetary trips. The lovers claimed Willis had reimbursed Wade, but determination was nary corroborating evidence. Georgia courts disqualified Willis, and a peculiar authoritative who replaced her dismissed the lawsuit earlier this month.

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Lawfare Democrats failed to fastener up, bankrupt, oregon decision Trump electorally. They are trying to get 1 past lb of soma from immoderate of the president’s erstwhile aides and supporters. If Mayes and Kaul bash not travel the Georgia peculiar prosecutor’s stellar illustration and driblet their sham cases, the courts successful Arizona and Wisconsin should.

The Justice Department besides should prosecute charges against these affronts to the ineligible assemblage for conspiracy to interruption the civilian rights of these lawfare victims nether 18 U.S.C. § 241. After all, arsenic we heard truthful overmuch during the lawfare run against President Trump, nary 1 is supra the law.